Login problems
 

I am a Slackware newbie. I am running Slackware 12.1 with XFCE4.2 as grafical environment, default runlevel 4. I can login as user, only when I first log in as root. When I try to log in as user first, I get thrown back to the login screen. I checked the permissions of my home-directory and my temp-directory, and they look allright according to other threads on this forum. How can I let the users of my machine login without beeing dependent of me as root?

I'm not sure which threads you're talking about for permissions of /home, /home/* and /tmp. Can you post the output of this command please?
Also, have you checked the contents of /etc/passwd to see if the users have valid shells?

I checked /etc/passwd and as far as I can see (I have only limited knowledge on linux yet) everything looks fine there. About the command ls -ld /home /home/* /tmp I get the following message:

drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2008-08-08 21:14 /home
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-07 03:50 /home/ftp
drwxr-x--- 33 hans users 4096 2008-08-27 07:41 /home/hans
drwxr-x--- 26 ik users 4096 2008-08-12 20:42 /home/ik
drwxr-x--- 18 mathijssux users 4096 2008-08-26 18:51 /home/mathijssux
drwxrwxrwt 23 root root 4096 2008-08-27 07:53 /tmp

Is there something wrong, or is it as it is supposed to be? And what to do next? Thanks for the reply!

I don't know about slackware, but 700 is a more standard permission for a user's home directory.

It's true that 0700 is preferable for a /home/user type directory, but it shouldn't be stopping XFCE from running. Can you confirm that everything in the user's directory is owned by that user with something like this?
Also, is /tmp/.X0-lock owned by the user logged into X?

If hans, ik and mathijssux are users, the permissions for their home folders are wrong. In a standard Slackware install, the permission for user's home folder is set to 711 (drwx--x--x).

Problem is suddenly solved. After the system performed a systemcheck, being mounted 38 times. I don't know what did the trick or what I did wrong, but thanks for your answers on my issue. I will set the permissions as it is supposed to be in a standard Slackware installation. Thanks again!

Now I know where I went wrong. There was simply to much stuff in my tmp/ directory. I wrote a script from one of the threads on this forum for a rc.local_shutdown to empty the directory every time I shutdown my machine, and now it runs perfectly.